 She is also a novelist and author of "The Only Woman In The Room," a memoir of her life as one of the first female show runners and one of the first women in television (released October 2015, Applause publishing).In fiction, Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mystery seven-book series (published by Bantam Books), including "Getting Old Is Murder", "Getting Old Is The Best Revenge", and "Getting Old Can Kill You".Lakin began writing regularly during the early 1960s for such television shows as "The Doctors", "Dr. Kildare" and "Peyton Place".